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Concept LADA XRAY 2 was one of the main exhibits of stand AvtoVAZ at the Moscow International Motor Show 2014. For the first time in its practice AvtoVAZ demonstrated simultaneously its concepts in Moscow and Togliatti: on August 27th, in the building of the plant there were shown concepts LADA Vesta and LADA XRAY 2.

AvtoVAZ, which reduces the number of employees due to the fall of the Russian car market, brought the total number of workers to the standard level. As the chairman of the trade union of the enterprise, Sergey Zaitsev, informed "Vedomosti", now it is corrected the number of individual units of the plant, including through the transfer of employees between shops.

Ministry of Industry and Trade will resume the recycling of program cars from September 1st, said Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev (his words were cited by "Interfax"). The program will run until the end of the year and it will require additional funds from the budget, the prime minister said.

Chinese automaker Chery has invested 5 million Dollars in the organization of production of vehicles at the plant "Derways" in Karachay-Cherkessia. It was reported by the vice-president of Chery International, Feng Ping, by adding that the funds were used for the purchase and supply of welding and painting equipment.

Datsun brand presented at the Moscow International Motor Show the second model for Russia - hatchback Datsun mi-DO, designed specifically for the Russian market. Production of new сar will begin at the facilities of AvtoVAZ at the end of this year, and sales will start at the beginning of 2015.

Yesterday, there was a presentation of a new model of AvtoVAZ - LADA Vesta - in Moscow and Togliatti. LADA Vesta - is a vehicle on new Russian platform B \ C, developed by engineers of AvtoVAZ in collaboration with the Alliance Renault-Nissan. LADA Vesta will be produced in Izhevsk in the autumn of 2015.

The share of motorists that prefer the automatic transmission is almost 2 times higher than car owners that are traveling with manual transmission. These data were received from a survey conducted at the Automobile portal Drom.ru from August 19th to 25th.

AvtoVAZ presented at the MIAS 2014 the concept car LADA Vesta. Serial production of model is scheduled for September 25, 2015. LADA Vesta was created on a new universal platform LADA B, developed by AvtoVAZ.

On the eve of the Moscow International Motor Show the new president of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), Tetsuro Aikawa, informed Russian reporters that the company has something to counter the decline in sales of cars in Russia, which, according to Mr. Aikawa, could reach 20%, wrote "Za rulem".

Among the cars, presented in the secondary market in Russia, the share of the segment before 7 years is 36%. These data are presented in a study, conducted by the analytical agency "AUTOSTAT" together with the online platform AVITO Auto.

"Mercedes-Benz" will present at the Moscow International Motor Show new cars of model range. There will be the world premiere of the luxury coupe S 65 AMG. For the first time in Russia it was shown the new generation of car S 600 Guard, the new flagship of the family of cars with special protection.

"National Rating Agency" (NDA) increased the individual credit rating of "GAZ" - the main legal entity of "GAZ Group", which is consolidating the financial results of the holding in accordance with IFRS - to the level of "A +" on a national scale.

KAMAZ and "VTB Factoring" signed a general agreement, according to which the factoring company will finance the debt of dealers to KAMAZ. Transaction is in the initial stage, now it was approved financing limit about 1 billion Rubles, which will increase with the expansion of cooperation

Taiwan manufacturers of spare parts and equipment for the maintenance of vehicles will present the latest developments on the site "Expocentre" in the exhibition «MIMS powered by Automechanika Moscow 2014".

After three years of operation, expensive cars is losing in the price most of all. This conclusion was made by experts, when they compared the price of new cars in 2011 with average market prices, at which cars are offered in 2014.

AvtoVAZ in July of 2014 produced 59,200 vehicles, among which 47,100 Lada cars and 12,100 of Renault and Nissan cars. As it was noted, July was the best month in terms of production of finished products of one hundred percent quality from the first time. Since the beginning of the year this figure rose by more than 30%.

Renault has long kept the secret about the date of start of series production of the new Sandero hatchback for the Russian market and the area - the choice was between the Moscow plant of Renault and AvtoVAZ.

KAMAZ has launched a new large-scale project under the name "Reengineering of the car industry and the creation of long-term family of KAMAZ vehicles". The main task is the creation of a fundamentally new car.

According to the agency "Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg", it was sold 45,086 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in January-July of 2014 in Yekaterinburg - it is less by 16% than for the same period of the last year.

Sales of light commercial vehicles in Russia by the end of July decreased by 28% to 10.8 thousand units. It is worth noting that such a sharp drop in the LCV segment was recorded last time only in the crisis year of 2009.

The company Renault presents in Russia a new Renault Sandero, sales of which will begin in the dealer network on September 4th of 2014. The premiere of new car will be held on August 27th at the Moscow International Motor Show.

According to Rosstat, it was assembled 1.1 million cars in the Russian assembly lines for the seven months of 2014 - it is less by 0.7% than a year before. Meanwhile, in July, it was produced about 180 thousand cars, which is more by 3.3% than a year ago.

Geely company will present at the Moscow International Motor Show three new models of mass production. Among them - the sedan Geely GC6, sales started in June 2014, Emgrand X7 crossover in an updated version of 2015 and Geely GC5 - new compact class sedan and hatchback.

According to the agency "Auto-Dealer-SPB", for the first seven months of 2014, St. Petersburg automakers Toyota, GM, Nissan and Hyundai produced 216,700 new passenger cars, which is less by 4% compared to the same period of the last year.

Nissan will present a number of premieres at the Moscow International Motor Show, two European (new Nissan Pathfinder SUV and the new C-segment sedan) and two Russian (new Nissan Juke and sports car GT-R Nismo).

The managenet of KAMAZ will provide 35 billion Rubles of state guarantees for up to 15 years, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with the general director of plant, Sergey Kogoghin. According to the decree, the guarantee will be available by corporate bonds.

Sales of passenger cars in Europe in July increased by 5.4% to 1,081,195 cars. According to research company JATO Dynamics, among the largest car markets of Europe, the decrese was shown by France (-4.3%), while in other countries it was recorded an increase - from 5.3% in Italy to 11.3% in Spain.

New Skoda Octavia at the end of July showed the largest increase in sales in the top-10 of European bestsellers. According to Skoda, the success of this model is designed to support the new estate car Octavia Scout, which will go on sale in August.

Geely company until the end of 2014 plans to introduce the additional modification of the vehicle Emgrand X7 with 2.4 liter engine and 6-speed automatic transmission, as well as the restyling version of the car MK Cross, which will receive a new appearance and a modified interior.

According to the agency "Auto-Dealer-SPb", in January and July of 2014 in St. Petersburg it was sold 108,556 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles - it is less by 5% than in the same period of 2013.

Kaliningrad automotive cluster "Autotor" predicts the decline in vehicle production in 2014 by 8.3% compared to 2013 up to 220,000 vehicles. The CEO of "Autotor Holding", Alexander Sorokin, informed about it the agency "ITAR-TASS", by recalling that cluster in 2013 produced 240 thousand cars, and in 2012 - 250 thousand units.